From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: struct_cpy() and kAFS (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:23:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040712182315.GA28281@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040712111120.2094f089.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > David Howells:
> > > o kAFS automount support
> >
> > After this change, all archs need to provide struct_cpy() to make AFS compile,
> > while currently only ia32 and amd64 provide it.
>
> Seems a strange thing to do. Why not rely on the type system?
struct_cpy is used nowehre except in arch/i386/kernel/process.c and AFS,
so we should probably better kill it before people start using it in other
places.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-12 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-11 18:29 Linux 2.6.8-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2004-07-11 23:00 ` [PATCH] edd (Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1) Randy.Dunlap
2004-07-12 3:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-12 4:49 ` Matt Domsch
2004-07-12 5:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-07-12 9:26 ` Linux 2.6.8-rc1 Matthias Andree
2004-07-12 18:54 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-12 9:34 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-07-12 15:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-12 15:56 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-07-12 16:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-12 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-12 20:28 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-07-12 20:22 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-07-13 20:54 ` cliff white
2004-07-12 21:08 ` Horst von Brand
2004-07-12 11:30 ` is_highmem() and WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1) Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-12 13:51 ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-07-12 14:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-12 12:01 ` Linux 2.6.8-rc1 Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-12 13:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-07-12 13:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-12 14:02 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-07-12 13:23 ` struct_cpy() and kAFS (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1) Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-12 18:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-12 18:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-07-12 18:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-13 10:14 ` David Howells
2004-07-12 23:49 ` Linux 2.6.8-rc1 (compile stats) John Cherry
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